People who vandalize Teslas and write things against company owner Elon Musk on the vehicles could find themselves being charged with committing a hate crime, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The department this week issued a press release about incidents of vandalism in Washington, D.C., reporting that “the suspects wrote political hate speech onto the victims’ Tesla vehicles then fled the scene,” reported Politico Editor Michael Schaffer in an opinion piece Thursday. “The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating these offenses as potentially being motivated by hate or bias.”

The document included security camera photographs of a man and woman believed to be the suspects. They have not been caught, but Musk reposted the department’s statement posted to X, which he also owns. He did not comment on the police report.

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